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Quotes by British Authors
"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."
"Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively."
"My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters."
"Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die."
"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"
"Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself."
"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."
"It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light."
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
"But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together."
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
"I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code."
"There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light."
"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
"I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this."
"I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence."
"I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time."
"We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are."
"Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money."
"I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time."
"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."
"In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite."
"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."
"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."
"The smaller the function, the greater the management."
"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."
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